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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the skulls when the narrator begins to play the music?
(a) They light up.
(b) They start to shake.
(c) They catch on fire.
(d) They resonate music.

2. Where is the shadow when the narrator comes to visit him at the beginning of Chapter 32?
(a) In the lean-to.
(b) Under the tree.
(c) In the cellar.
(d) In the Watchtower.

3. What is the last thing the shadow tells the narrator?
(a) "I'll come back for you."
(b) "I'm disappointed in you."
(c) "I won't forget you."
(d) "I loved you."

4. Who does the narrator tell his shadow the Wall is really there to hold in?
(a) The Librarian.
(b) The beasts.
(c) The Townspeople.
(d) Himself.

5. What does the chubby girl begin reading in the narrator's apartment?
(a) Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
(b) Turgenev's On the Eve.
(c) Balzac's Chouans.
(d) Flaubert's Madame Bovary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to the hole the men dug outside the narrator's window?

2. What does the narrator think people want to extend to everything?

3. What happens to the narrator as he passes by the INKlings' lair?

4. What is the first thing the narrator mentions when telling his shadow about his doubts?

5. How does the shadow know the Town has an exit?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the significance of the music in Chapter 36.

2. Why does the Librarian say the accordion is "the key" in Chapter 36?

3. Explain what the Professor says is a way out of the situation the narrator finds himself in in Chapter 27 and why it would work.

4. Explain the parallels between the video game the narrator plays at the beginning of Chapter 35 and his life.

5. What is "the encyclopedia wand"?

6. How does the narrator's shadow say he developed his plan of escape in Chapter 38?

7. Explain the significance of the song "Danny Boy" for the narrator's life.

8. What does the chubby girl plan to do once the narrator loses consciousness, and why?

9. Given what the narrator tells his shadow about why he plans to stay, what do you think he plans to do with his time in the Town?

10. What does the narrator say in Chapter 37 about "...tuning in on the particulars of the world" and why is that important?

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